Low-dose CT cuts lung-cancer deaths
Initial results from a large study have shown there to be 20% fewer deaths from lung cancer among people screened with low-dose helical computed tomography compared with standard chest x-ray.
Preventive Medicine
Screening for diabetes now more convenient
Because the HbA1c test doesn’t require fasting, clinicians hope it will reduce the number of people going undiagnosed with type 2 diabetes
Women with diabetes, depression more likely to die from heart disease
Women with coexisting diabetes and depression are at particularly high risk for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality.
A practical guide to heart-failure diagnosis
Characterized by impaired myocardial performance, heart failure is often misdiagnosed. Clinicians should focus on prevention and early detection
Pertussis-vaccination rates too low
A CDC analysis reveals that only 5.9% of adults aged 18 to 64 years received the Tdap vaccine in 2008.
Once-a-decade BMD screening sufficient
Women aged 67 years and older with normal bone mineral density scores may not need to undergo such testing again for 10 years.
Blacks need early BP meds
Hypertension in blacks is such a serious health problem that treatment thresholds should be lowered and providers should quickly move to multidrug therapy to keep BP comfortably below the thresholds.
Primary-care CRC screening lacking
Fewer than one in five U.S. primary-care physicians follow practice guidelines for all recommended colorectal cancer screening modalities.
Ivabradine may reduce HF mortality, hospital admission
Ivabradine is a novel agent that lowers heart rate by inhibiting the I(f) current in the sinoatrial node.
Regular exercise reduces midlife weight gain
Although the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activity, five days a week, few long-term data corroborated the amount of activity necessary to keep weight off until now.
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